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PARKER, Adelaide (? d 1980)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1249 MS 6912

Held at: Royal College of Music

Title: PARKER, Adelaide (? d 1980)

Date(s): 1910-1959

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Parker | Adelaide | ? d 1980 | organist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Adelaide Parker was an organist and Fellow of the Royal College of Music. No other information is available at present.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters to Adelaide Parker, Bruno d'Arba and Joan McLeod, 1910-1959, including letters and postcards to Adelaide Parker regarding her performances from, Joseph Bonnet, Basil Harwood, Wanda Landowska, C Hubert H Parry, Ethel Smyth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles-Marie Widor; letters to Bruno d'Arba from Francis Jackson; letters to Joan d'Arba from George W Russell (`AE'); letters to Joan Mcleod in relation to submission of her poetry for publication, including 8 from Walter de la Mare; letter from W B Yeats on setting of his poetry to music, undated.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

The collection is catalogued in the 'Provisional catalogue of letters in the RCM library' by J Kersey, 1997, vol 1; an entry is also given in the supplement to volume 3 of the Manuscripts catalogue in the library of the Royal College of Music.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the RCM via Bryan Kelly, Sep 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Musical performances | Music | Performing arts
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names
Bonnet | Joseph | 1884-1944 | French organist and composer
Harwood | Basil | 1859-1949 | musician and composer
Landowska | Wanda | 1879-1959 | Polish keyboard player and composer
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | poet and writer x de la Mare | Walter
Parker | Adelaide | ? d 1980 | organist
Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer
Russell | George William | 1867-1935 | poet painter economist and journalist known as 'AE'
Smyth | Dame | Ethel Mary | 1858-1944 | composer and suffragist
Widor | Charles Marie Jean Albert | 1844-1937 | French organist, composer and teacher
Williams | Ralph | Vaughan | 1872-1958 | composer x Vaughan Williams | Ralph
Yeats | William Butler | 1865-1939 | poet and playwright

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